News and Announcements
BY Claire Potter ON November 28, 2014
- CFP: iConference 2015 workshop on Exploring Gender, Race, and Sexuality with Social Media Data Newport Beach, California, USA. March 24, 2015. For more information go here.
- Are you going to the OAH meeting in St. Louis? The “Hey, I Know Your Work!” mentorship program at the conference is designed to connect graduate students, recent graduates, or those in the early stages of their career with seasoned scholars to discuss their research, professional aspirations, or simply to get acquainted.Queer scholars don’t necessarily need queer mentors…but it doesn’t hurt! Sign up now.
- Book event on queer Christianities. Next Wednesday, December 3, the Religious Studies program at Eugene Lang College, The New School, is hosting an evening of events. At 4:30, there is a roundtable on queerness and religion, featuring Lang faculty Karen Bray (“Affect Theory, Alien Prophets, and Queer Prayers”), Dominic Longo (“Why Does Queer Islamic Theology Matter?”) and Michael Pettinger (“Augustine, Experience, and Queer Sin”), followed by a Q&A. At 6:00, immediately following the Roundtable will be a book-release celebration for Queer Christianities: Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms, a new anthology co-edited by Lang faculty members Michael Pettinger and Mark Larrimore, with NYU’s Kathleen Talvacchia. Michael and Kathy will offer remarks and open a discussion about the book, and a reception will follow. Both events are in the Dorothy Hirshon Suite, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, Room I205, New York, NY 1001.
- Digitizing the AIDS Quilt. Also at The New School, on Monday December 1, 2014, a panel on Digital Memorials and Media Art Activism: Designing Digital Experiences for the AIDS Memorial Quilt 6:00 pm John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center,
63 Fifth Avenue, Room U100, New York, NY 10003. - College of the Holy Cross Hosts First Transgender Digital Archive. The Catholic Education Daily reports that “A College of the Holy Cross professor’s project to develop a “Digital Transgender Archive” (DTA) was recently hailed by Dr. Margaret Freije, dean of the College, who cited the Jesuit mission of Holy Cross in support of the initiative, according to the College’s magazine. Asked whether such an initiative could conflict with the College’s Catholic identity, a Holy Cross spokesperson simply verified the dean’s support for the project.” Do I really have to ask you to click this link to read more about support for this project being led out by Assistant Professor of English KJ Rawson?
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